Publications - Benjamin C. Lee

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Refereed Conferences and Journals

Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee. "Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory." SOSP: 22nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Big Sky, MT, October 2009.
[pdf (225 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (544KB)]

Kristen Lovin, Benjamin C. Lee, Xiaoyao Liang, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei. "Empirical performance models for 3T1D memories." ICCD: 27th International Conference on Computer Design. Lake Tahoe, CA, October 2009.
[pdf (1.47 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (4.54 MB)]

Xiaoyao Liang, Benjamin C. Lee, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks. "Design and test strategies for microarchitectural post-fabrication tuning." ICCD: 27th International Conference on Computer Design. Lake Tahoe, CA, October 2009.
[pdf (772 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (1.3 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Engin Ipek, Onur Mutlu, Doug Burger. "Architecting phase change memory as a scalable DRAM alternative." ISCA: 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Austin, TX, June 2009.
[pdf (1.9MB)] | [gzip'd ps (2.9 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Jamison Collins, Hong Wang, David Brooks. "CPR: Composable performance regression for scalable multiprocessor models." MICRO: 41st International Symposium on Microarchitecture. Lake Como, Italy, November 2008. Nominee, Best Paper.
[pdf (1.5 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (2.7 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee. "Corporate social responsibility and the globalization of 'local values'." 38th St. Gallen Symposium: Global Capitalism - Local Values. St. Gallen, Switzerland, May 2008.
[pdf (32 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (60 KB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Efficiency trends and limits from comprehensive microarchitectural adaptivity." ASPLOS: 13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. Seattle, WA, March 2008.
[pdf (1.4 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (2.8 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Roughness of microarchitectural design topologies and its implications for optimization." HPCA: 14th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture. Salt Lake City, UT, February 2008.
[pdf (2.6 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (4.3 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "A tutorial in spatial sampling and regression strategies for microarchitectural analysis." IEEE Micro Special Issue: Hot Tutorials. May/June 2007.
[pdf (2.3 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (3.3 MB)] :: Manuscript
[pdf (2.1 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (2.3 MB)] :: IEEE Micro

Benjamin C. Lee. "Flattening the world efficiently: Digital sustainability for the twenty-first century." 37th St. Gallen Symposium: The Power of Natural Resources. St. Gallen, Switzerland, May 2007.
[pdf (32 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (60 KB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks, Bronis de Supinski, Martin Schulz, Karan Singh, Sally McKee. "Methods of inference and learning for performance modeling of parallel applications." PPoPP: 12th Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming. San Jose, CA, March 2007.
[pdf (1.82 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (3.03 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Illustrative design space studies with microarchitectural regression models." HPCA: 13th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture. Phoenix, AZ, February 2007.
[pdf (4.73 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (7.91 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Accurate and efficient regression modeling for microarchitectural performance and power prediction." ASPLOS: 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. San Jose, CA, October 2006.
[pdf (2.78 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (8.27 MB)]

Yingmin Li, Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks, Zhigang Hu, Kevin Skadron. " Impact of thermal constraints on multi-core architectures." ITHERM: 10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronics Systems. San Diego, CA, May 2006.
[pdf (176 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (300 KB)]

Yingmin Li, Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks, Zhigang Hu, Kevin Skadron. "CMP design space exploration subject to physical constraints." HPCA: 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture. Austin, TX, February 2006.
[pdf (268 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (444 KB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Richard Vuduc, James Demmel, Katherine Yelick. "Performance models for evaluation and automatic tuning of symmetric sparse matrix-vector multiply." ICPP: 33rd International Conference on Parallel Processing. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2004. Winner, Best Paper.
[pdf (151 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (380 KB)]

Richard Vuduc, James Demmel, Katherine Yelick, Shoaib Kamil, Rajesh Nishtala, Benjamin C. Lee. "Performance optimizations and bounds for sparse matrix-vector multiply." SC02: Conference on Supercomputing, Baltimore, MD, November 2002. Finalist, Best Student Paper.
[pdf (834 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (618 KB)]

Refereed Workshops

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Statistically rigorous regression modeling for the microprocessor design space." MoBS: 2nd Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation in conjunction with ISCA-33. Boston, MA, June 2006.
[pdf (1.68 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (4.64 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Effects of pipeline complexity on SMT/CMP power-performance efficiency." WCED: 5th Workshop on Complexity Effective Design in conjunction with ISCA-32. Madison, WI, June 2005.
[pdf (884 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (1.34 MB)]

Technical Reports and Manuscripts

Vijay Janapa Reddi, Benjamin Lee, Trishul Chilimbi, Kushagra Vaid. "Web search using small cores: Quantifying the price of efficiency." Technical Report MSR-TR-2009-105, Microsoft Research, August 2009.
[pdf (592 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (627 KB)]

Xiaoyao Liang, Benjamin Lee, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks. "Design and test strategies for microarchitectural post-fabrication tuning." Technical Report TR-06-08, Harvard University, December 2008.
[pdf (509 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (926 KB)]

Kristen Lovin, Benjamin Lee, Xiaoyao Liang, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei. "Empirical performance models for 3T1D Memories." Technical Report TR-03-08, Harvard University, October 2008.
[pdf (811 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (935 KB)]

Benjamin C. Lee. "Statistical inference for efficient microarchitectural analysis." PhD Thesis, Harvard University, May 2008. Nominee, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
[pdf (10.4 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (23.5 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Martin Schulz, Bronis de Supinski. "Regression strategies for parameter space exploration: A case study in semicoarsening multigrid and R." Technical Report UCRL-TR-224851, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, September 2006.
[pdf (4.18 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (12.36 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Regression modeling strategies for microarchitectural performance and power prediction." Technical Report TR-08-06, Harvard University, March 2006.
[pdf (4.18 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (12.36 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee. "An architectural assessment of SPEC CPU benchmark relevance." Technical Report TR-02-06, Harvard University, January 2006.
[pdf (924 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (3.59 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Richard Vuduc, James Demmel, Katherine Yelick, Michael de Lorimier, Lijue Zhong. "Performance optimizations and bounds for sparse symmetric matrix-multiple vector multiply." Technical Report UCB//CSD-03-1297, University of California, Berkeley, November 2003.
[pdf (867 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (2.05 MB)]

Tutorials

David M. Brooks, Bronis de Supinski, Benjamin C. Lee, Sally McKee, Martin Schulz, Karan Singh. "Learning and inference tutorial (LIT) for large design and parameter spaces." ASPLOS: 13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. Seattle, WA, March 2008.
[Tutorial Website]

David M. Brooks, Bronis de Supinski, Benjamin C. Lee, Sally McKee, Martin Schulz, Karan Singh. "Inference and learning for large scale microarchitectural analysis." ISCA: 34th International Symposium on Computer Architecture. San Diego, CA, June 2007.
[Tutorial Website]

Talks and Posters

Benjamin C. Lee. "Panel :: Phase change memory: An architecture and systems perspective." NANOARCH: International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures. San Francisco, CA, July 2009.
[pdf (81.4 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (94.6 KB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Engin Ipek, Onur Mutlu, Doug Burger. "Talk :: Architecting phase change memory as a scalable DRAM alternative." ISCA: 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Austin, TX, June 2009.
[pdf (1.01 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (4.1 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Jamison Collins, Hong Wang, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: CPR - Composable performance regression for scalable multiprocessor models." MICRO: 41st International Symposium on Microarchitecture. Lake Como, Italy, November 2008.
[pdf (3.2 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (4.8 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: Potential performance and power efficiencies from comprehensive microarchitectural adaptivity." ASPLOS: 13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. Seattle, WA, March 2008.
[pdf (2.9 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (8.5 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: Roughness of microarchitectural design topologies and its implications for optimization." HPCA: 14th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture. Salt Lake City, UT, February 2008.
[pdf (3.0 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (11.0 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Jamison Collins, Hong Wang, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: CPR - Composable performance regression for scalable multiprocessor models." Intel, Santa Clara, CA, December 2007.

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: Statistical inference for efficient microarchitectural analysis." Intel, Folsom, CA, June 2007.
[pdf (2.8 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (5.6 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks, Bronis de Supinski, Martin Schulz, Karan Singh, Sally McKee. "Talk :: Methods of inference and learning for performance modeling of parallel applications." PPoPP: 12th Symposium Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming. San Jose, CA, March 2007.
[pdf (1.2 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (2.5 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: Statistical inference for efficient microarchitectural analysis." Boston Area Architecture Workshop, Boston, MA, January 2007.
[pdf (2.12 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (3.27 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: Illustrative design space studies with microarchitectural regression models." HPCA: 13th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture. Phoenix, AZ, February 2007.
[pdf (4.8 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (9.5 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: Statistical inference for efficient microarchitectural analysis." Intel, Santa Clara, CA, January 2007.
[pdf (6.32 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (10.24 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee. "Talk & Poster :: Statistical inference for efficient microarchitectural and application analysis." SC: Supercomputing, Tampa, FL, November 2006. Winner, ACM Student Research Competition.
[pdf (1.5M)] | [gzip'd ps (5.0 MB)] :: Slides
[pdf (392 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (2.39 MB)] :: Poster

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks, Bronis de Supinski, Martin Schulz. "Talk :: Regression modeling strategies for parameter space exploration." Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, September 2006.
[pdf (5.33 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (14.30 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Talk :: Accurate and efficient regression modeling for microarchitectural performance and power prediction." ASPLOS: 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. San Jose, CA, October 2006.
[pdf (1.5 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (6.2 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks. "Poster :: Efficient design space exploration for chip multiprocessors." Harvard Industrial Partnership Annual Meeting, Poster Session, Cambridge, MA, October 2005.
[pdf (159 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (1.17 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, Richard W. Vuduc, James W. Demmel, Katherine A. Yelick. "Talk :: Performance models for evaluation and automatic tuning of symmetric sparse matrix-vector multiply." ICPP: 33rd International Conference on Parallel Processing. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2004.
[pdf (540 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (1.1 MB)]

Benjamin C. Lee, R. Vuduc, J. Demmel, K. Yelick. "Talk :: Optimizations and bounds for sparse symmetric matrix-vector multiply." SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Francisco, CA, March 2004.
[pdf (373 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (542 KB)]

Richard Vuduc, Eun-Jin Im, James Demmel, Katherine Yelick, Attila Gyulassy, Chris Hsu, Shoaib Kamil, Benjamin Lee, Hyun-Jin Moon, Rajesh Nishtala. "Poster :: Automatic performance tuning of sparse matrix kernels." SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, San Diego, CA, February 2003.
[pdf (608 KB)] | [gzip'd ps (720 KB)]

James Demmel, Katherine Yelick, Richard Vuduc, Shoaib Kamil, Rajesh Nishtala, Benjamin Lee, Atilla Gyulassy, Chris Hsu. "Talk :: Automatic performance tuning of sparse matrix kernels." Intel Presentation, Berkeley, CA, January 2003.
[pdf (6.70 MB)] | [gzip'd ps (811 KB)]